David Luna

David B. Luna is a Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic, where he helps state, local government, and education organizations turn scattered security data into a single, shared view of risk. Over the past year at Elastic, he has had the pleasure of supporting critical infrastructure customers across Texas. He brings more than 25 years of Texas State Government experience to the job, along with first-hand knowledge of what it takes to defend a large, interdependent public ecosystem. For four years David was SOC Manager for the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), leading CyberOps to help protect more than 100 state agencies. Each agency had its own mission, its own budget, and its own technology, yet they all faced the same adversaries. David’s approach was to meet them where they were and treat them as one defensive community rather than a hundred separate problems. He worked closely with CISOs and executive leaders at agencies including the Texas Workforce Commission, the